Announcing a Webinar/Teleconference on
Why "Cyber Pearl Harbor" Won't Be Like Pearl Harbor At All...
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
2:00 to 3:30 p.m. ET
Exclusively avaialable via web or teleconference
Featuring
Lawrence Husick, Senior Fellow, FPRI
Edward Turzanski, Templeton Fellow, FPRI
On October 12, 2012, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta
warned that the United States could face a "cyber Pearl
Harbor" as cyber actors launch simultaneous attacks on our
critical infrastructure, in combination with a physical
attack. Mr. Panetta's warning was both embarrassingly late
and stunningly lacking in both reality and imagination.
Lawrence Husick, FPRI's co-chair the Center for the Study of
Terrorism, and a patent attorney and self-described computer
hacker, will address the threat that faces the nation, and
why both public and private sector perceptions of the threat
and reactions to it give little hope that we will be able to
avert serious consequences of disruption and violence in the
cyber domain. Mr. Husick's June 2011 briefing on this topic
was described by former National Security Advisor Robert
"Bud" McFarlane as, "the best I've heard from anyone
anywhere." Join FPRI on October 24, 2012 at 2:00p EDT to
learn more about this critical issue in national security.
Edward Turzanski is Co-Chairman of FPRI's Center for the
Study of Terrorism and he is FPRI's first Templeton Fellow.
He has extensive experience in service to the US
intelligence community in the Middle East and Central Asia.
He regularly appears on air, offering commentary on CNN, CNN
Headline News, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, and assorted
international media organizations. During the Bush (43)
Administration, he was a member of the U.S. Department of
Justice Anti-Terror Advisory Committee for Region III and
the Department of Homeland Security Port Security Committee
for the Port of Philadelphia.
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[email protected]About the Presenters
Lawrence Husick is Co-Chairman of the Foreign Policy
Research Institute's Center for the Study of Terrorism
where he concentrates on the study of terrorist tactics and
counterterrorism strategies, with a particular focus on
technology leverage as a defining characteristic of the
modern terrorist. He is also co-director of the FPRI Wachman
Center's Program on Teaching Innovation and an adjunct
professor in the Organizational Dynamics Masters Program of
the University of Pennsylvania and at the Whiting Graduate
School of Engineering of the Johns Hopkins University.
Mr. Husick's computer-related experience includes his work
as co-founder and principal system architect of Infonautics
Corporation (now HighBeam Research), which offers the
Electric Library and Encyclopedia.com on the World Wide Web,
for which he has been awarded five U.S. patents. He serves
as Chief Innovation Officer of TeraDisc, LLC, a pioneering
company in the field of in silico drug research. He has been
a consultant to both government and private organizations as
a systems analyst and design engineer. He has designed
teaching and simulation systems, special-purpose process
control systems for the chemical industry, and has consulted
in the design of systems which range from natural language
multimedia retrieval servers, to controllers for air
conditioners, laser printers, alarm systems, and chemical
instrumentation. He is a skilled programmer in computer
languages ranging from assembler to Objective C, and designs
and builds special-purpose computer hardware.
Mr. Husick holds a B.S. degree cum laude in Environmental
Chemistry from Muhlenberg College and a J.D. from the
Washington College of Law and has done graduate studies in
microprocessor engineering. He spent several years as an
associate patent attorney, working in a wide range of
technologies, and in litigation practice. Prior to starting
Lipton, Weinberger & Husick, an intellectual property and
technological law firm, he was head of the Intellectual
Property Group of Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish & Kauffman in
Philadelphia.
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Edward A. Turzanski, Co-Chairman of the Center for the Study
of Terrorism at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, is a
national security analyst at La Salle University, where he
teaches in the Department of Political Science. He has also
served with the U.S. Government in the field of intelligence
(Soviet, Eastern European, Central Asian and Middle East
Affairs) throughout the Middle East, Central Asia, and
Eastern Europe.
Mr. Turzanski is the National Security and Intelligence
Analyst for Comcast's CN-8 Channel; and he has appeared on
numerous national television and radio stations including
Fox News Network, CNN, MSNBC, National Public Radio in
Wisconsin and New Hampshire, Canadian Broadcast Corporation
news, Turkish National Television from Istanbul, South
African National radio, Australian National Radio, WLS in
Chicago, KAIRO in Seattle, and KERN in Bakersfield,
California.
In additional to his academic positions, Mr. Turzanski is
the Assistant Vice President for Government and Community
Relations at La Salle University. His interests and
activities include foreign and domestic political analysis;
and foreign affairs, intelligence, and espionage research.
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